A Review of the Book Shiite Geopolitics

For the author, imposing the notion of “geopolitics” on the Shiite epistemological and doctrinal discourse is among the innovations of the Francois Thual’s book entitled Shiite Geopolitics. Francois has attempted to adjust the older notions of Iranian Islam and Arabic Islam to Iranian Shiism and Arabic Shiism in a narrower circle. His main goal in this book is to display the Shiite geopolitics with Iran’s heartland. To do so, he has ignored many of the realities of the Shiite societies, and his errors in reporting the Shiite history are quite obvious.